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Pamela, what's in a name?

The other day I received an Amaryllis bulb from Jan Deen (my regular bulb
supplier). "Pamela" he had written on the bag.

Pamela? What crossed the breeder’s mind naming his new Amaryllis Pamela?
Pamela Anderson? I know, it made me immediately think of her. Pamela Anderson,
the actress who could run so elegantly along the shore, in her red bathing suit
and with her flowing hair. Not to mention the rest ......

Jan Deen suggested to put the bulb on a bowl without any soil. That was not
very hard to do! So I took my black bowl, added a little moss and laid Pamela on
this bed of moss. Instantly she looked very nice.

After some time two flower stems arise from the bulb. As the stems grew taller,
Pamela became very unstable. The bulb kept tumbling down and Pamela lay askew
on the bowl. A fallen woman, this had to stop!

I explored my vast depot of vases and found the solution in a vase in
the shape of a champagne glass. Pamela fitted snugly into it. With some more moss
I pushed the bulb into the vase. This simply stopped her from moving.

In the end Pamela proved to be a small flowering Amaryllis species.
Flowers are about 8 cm. Each stem has seven flowers. It blooms profusely.

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